As a wee incentive, the first 20 will have a prize draw of a box of Fairtrade Chocolates ... and then a further box for all the rest submitted by 20 April!

Would you like to be involved with Transition Scotland (TS)? We work in our communities to make them stronger, happier and truly sustainable. We have just become a National Hub, part of the global Transition Network, with members in every continent. Through our website http://www.transition.scot and our newsletters we connect those in Scotland inspired by Transition tools and techniques ... to make our work even more effective. We encourage group membership AND individual membership.

This short survey will inform our direction in the coming year. Please get in touch if you can get involved – and join our Learning Opportunity weekend with Sustaining Dunbar, Friday 20 - Sunday 22 April [Book via https://ts-dunbar.eventbrite.co.uk] Thanks for your ideas.

Fri 20th (eve) to Sun 22nd (lunchtime) April'18

The Transition Scotland regional hub invite you and your community group for a Learning Visit to Sustaining Dunbar in East Lothian: 7pm Friday 20 April - 1pm Sunday 22 April Book at https://ts-dunbar.eventbrite.co.uk[One booking per person: scroll down to tick your requests]

NOTE 1: We hope noone will be prevented from participating due to funding problems - please contact the organisers if you need a bursary / can offer to help organisation of things in exchange for free entry.

NOTE 2: We hope all travel expenses can be reimbursed through a Learning Exchange Fund. Keep receipts to claim.

NOTE 3: Please make one booking per participant. Supplementary question if you are bringing family / kids. No online fees for the two priced items. Suggest small donation to couchsurf hosts.

Video Conference for 1st TS meeting

Thanks to the power of the internet, folks from Transition groups across Scotland joined in with a video conference using www.zoom.us technology to video-chat about the development of Transition Scotland and the first set of actions to help us get underway.

What a great low-carbon use of technology to get us chatting and able to see each other without the need to travel such long distances.

In true Transition Style, we started with a check-in, Inviting each person to reflect on how they were feeling, what they were up to or what kind of mood they were in. A refreshing way to give everyone time and space to talk about themselves and to set a respectful scene were we could appreciate and support those who needed the most hugs...

The main focus of the meeting was to review progress on the Transition Network funding which we had been granted earlier in 2017. This money was to help us maintain and refine our web presence (domain names and website content), to design and deliver a survey of all of our followers and supporters to find out where they were at, and what potential there is for folks to join existing groups or to form new ones. We also discussed the practicalities of introducing elements of Sociocracy into our practices to ensure everyone gets an equal chance to comment on new policies/procedures/etc, and finally we also spoke about the planning of a Transition Scotland Gathering later in the year in Dunbar.

Its early doors for TS, but the basics are there. We dont have to travel to meet and agree things, and we can benefit from remaining in contact on a regular basis to support each other and to support the development of our Scottish regional hub for the Transition Network.

If you would like to get involved then we have plenty of space for new faces. Lots of activities going on and much to do for 2018 and beyond.